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article: https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/

context: https://technologymagazine.com/cloud-and-cybersecurity/protonmail-under-fire-over-data-handover

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[–] edg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What if a user donates to Signal?

[–] ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure, they do seem to store something (pretty unclear what though), but I'm guessing that can be fully decoupled from a user's account, since it's unrelated to the actual service.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -2 points 2 weeks ago

What if I buy Signal Nitro